gynocritic

gynocritic
 n.β€” Β«Elaine Showalter has now undertaken this daunting venture.…She once coined the term β€œgynocritic” for critics freed β€œfrom the linear absolutes of male literary history.”)Β» β€”β€œWriting Women” by Katie Roiphe New York Times Mar. 8, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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